"She is Always with Me – Santa Muerte as Divine Feminine"
New on my Skeleton Saint site by guest contributor, Shawn Michael Christopher...
My relationship to Death itself began as a child, knowing, feeling, and seeing things that were around me that were not necessarily of what we typically know or think of this plane of existence. In addition to full-on conversations, I felt things around, so although I was an only child, I was rarely lonely because I wasn’t in fact alone, none of us really are. My imagination allowed for this room in my world, but it wasn’t something that was discussed directly.
As I grew older, and became involved with religious instruction school to prepare me for communion and then confirmation, what was a very open and natural conversation as a younger child became a shadow, and less direct presence which absolutely made me feel always different but now a bit more isolated. Being gay, an extroverted introvert, compelled to be who I was, I felt it was necessary to be open, but I felt very vulnerable, despite having very loving parents....
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